new java?

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Thu May 18 19:14:58 BST 2006


On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 10:59 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 06:54:20PM +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> > Right, it's relatively straightforward I think to update the
> > documentation, obviously the -plugin package is intended for browsers,
> > and -jre and -jdk are self-explanatory. However one thing I'm unclear
> > about is whether -plugin will be shipped for more than i386, at the
> > moment, it looks like only that arch is available in the archive. If
> > that's right, what package should amd64 users install to get a java
> > plugin in their browser?
> 
> Sun does not currently provide an amd64 browser plugin.

Thanks Matt. So we'll recommend that i386 users install
sun-java5-plugin, and that amd64 users should install
j2re1.4-mozilla-plugin.

Hopefully that is all clear now!

Matt
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